Petrochemical

U.S. sues chemical company over cancer risk to Louisiana community

Federal officials sued a chemical maker last week, alleging that its plant presents an unacceptable cancer risk to a nearby majority-black south Louisiana community...

‘Forever chemicals’ detected at five Louisiana sites along the Mississippi River

Some of the “forever chemicals” that scientists have linked to various health risks were found at five different locations of the Mississippi River in...

Long-awaited Baton Rouge ExxonMobil plastics plant expansion goes online

State and city-parish officials and ExxonMobil leadership celebrated the startup of the company’s long-awaited polypropylene growth project at its north Baton Rouge plant last...

Placid Refinery pays $4.8M for BRAF’s former Baton Rouge headquarters

Port Allen’s Placid Refining Co. has purchased the building that formerly housed the Baton Rouge Area Foundation along with a parking lot straddling the...

BASF breaks ground on $780 million MDI capacity upgrade in Geismar

BASF has broken ground on the third and final phase of its expansion project for polyurethane precursor MDI at its integrated site in Geismar,...

Company with Louisiana project completes first CO2 direct-air capture

Startup Climeworks AG achieved an important milestone recently by successfully pulling CO2 from the open air and storing it underground for the first time, The Wall...

Study says ExxonMobil scientists knew of impending climate change

ExxonMobil’s scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists’ conclusions,...

BRAC, LCA applaud ruling against carbon capture moratorium

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the Louisiana Chemical Association are praising a federal judge’s recent ruling that Livingston Parish cannot enforce a carbon...

Denka’s LaPlace plant to face new EPA rules on waste disposal

Federal regulators announced Wednesday they had reached an agreement with the controversial Denka Performance Elastomer plant in LaPlace over violations of hazardous waste rules related...

ExxonMobil boosts petrochemical capacity in Baton Rouge

ExxonMobil has ramped up more polypropylene production at its petrochemicals complex in Baton Rouge, increasing capacity to 450,000 metric tons/year, reports Natural Gas Intelligence. The...

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